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Nammu: The Sumerian Goddess of The Deep !!!

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                                                                    Goddess Nammu  “ Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters .”                    - Genesis 1:2 Goddess Nammu is known as the mother of the G-d Enki/Ea as well as the mother Goddess who gave birth to the cosmos and all the gods. Like her son Enki/Ea she is also associated with magic. In later times, her role is taken on by Tiamat. According to the God list An-Anum, tablet I line 28 (Litke 1998: 24; Wiggermann 1998-2001c: 137), Namma bears the title " Mother who gave birth to the heavens and the earth ." Goddess of the Primeval Sea, “ She who gave birth to heaven and earth ." In the Sumerian cosmogony, firstly there is the primeval sea, called Nammu which was the endless sea in which the universe floated. They believed that Nammu was without a beginning in time and that Nammu had created h